Hand-stamp.



I! E. N. FALES. HAND STAMP. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 2. 1916- L l 5,?88u Patented Feb. 13, 1917.

a sheet of fabric is known as 'a stencil sheet Over the inking pad 18 is placed an impresthe waxy coating is displaced and the fibrous and being then placed over the inking pad ELISHA N. FALES, F BUFFALO, NEW YORK HAND-STAMP.

1 215 78g Specification of Letters Patent. Patentgd F 47 113 191 7 Application filed February 2, 1916. Serial No. 75,632.

To all whom it may concern: and the stamp then used to make the desired Be it known that I, ELISHA N. FA-LEs, a impression; after which the impression sheet citizen of the United States, residing at may be removed and discarded and another 511 Linwood avenue, in Buffalo, county of one substituted bearing difi'erent reading 0 Erie, and State of New York, have inventmatter or another design or inscription.

ed newand useful Improvements in Hand- 'A device embodying the principles of this Stamps, of which the following is a specifiinvention is illustrated in the accompanycation. mg drawings in which; I

This invention relates to improvements in Figure 1 is a View of the device in perprinting devices of the kind adapted for Spective. I printing with ink on paper, cards, postals, F g. 2 1s a top plan view thereof. letter sheets, and other surfaces by the simig. 3 1s a vertical section on th li e 3 -3 ple manipulation of a small hand stamp of Fig. 1. with its surface properly prepared for mak- As shown in said. drawings, in Figs. 1 to ing such impressions; one of the objects of 3, both inclusive, 10 indicates a suitable supthis invention being to provide such a deport for the sheets of paper, cards, or the vice which may be very simply and cheaply like, to be printed upon, one of these sheets, made, which may be readily arranged for 11, being shown resting on its flat surface printing reading matter, drawings, designs and guided by a transverse strip 12 at the and the like, and which may be operated at end of the support 10; such strip having a great speed to make the desired impressions groove 13 under its inside edge so that the by a simple stamping operation on a sheet of card or sheet 11 can be placed with one edge paper or other surface and without the neunder this groove and thus held in position cessity of reinking between impressions. for the subsequent operation as will be de- The device comprises essentially an inking scribed hereinafter. The movable part of pad which is backed by a hard, unyielding the stamp comprises a solid block 16 which block or other suitable supporting surface, is preferably made with its lower surface and means for clamping uponsuch surface cylindrically curved, and upon this surface a thin fabric which is made of fibrous me. is fixed a somewhat yielding absorbent pad terial covered with a waxy coating andis 18, of felt or other suitable materiahwhich adapted for the making of stencils. Such is designed to be saturated with printing ink.

and in the use of my improved device the sion sheet 19, the latter being of well known stencil sheet is first prepared with an imform and comprising a fibrous sheet with pression of the desired reading matter, a waxy coating suitable for the making of drawing, design, device orinscription on its stencils. Before being placed in position surface, either by printing upon it with a over the inking pad, this stencil sheet is typewriter or by writing or drawing upon properly prepared with the desired reading it with a stylus or other implement so that matter or design cut into its waxy covering,

material of the sheet exposed. This sheet as shown it will permit the ink to come into is then clamped over the surface of the ink contact with the paper 11 only at those pad and the stamp is then ready for use, it places where its coating has been cut away, being necessary only to press it down upon thus making the desired impressions onthe a sheet of paper or other surface when ink paper. For the purpose of clamping the from the inking pad is forced through the impression sheet or stencil sheet over the openings in the stencil sheet and upon the inking pad the sheet 19 is brought up over paper to make the desired impressions. In each 'end of the block 16, and against each 7 this way announcements on postal cards, of such up-turned ends of the sheet there is form letters, autographicsignatures, labels, pressed a wire clamp 24. These two wire etc., may be prepared W1l3l1 an expense so clamps are made alike, and, as best shown small as to be almost negllglble and if a in Fig. 2, each is bent back at right angles number of impress ons of any kind are deat one end and loosely pivoted to the side sired for some partlcular purpose a suitable face of the block 16 by means of a nail or impression sheet may be easily and quickly screw 25 and an eye 26 bent in the end of prepared and placed upon the inking pad, the wire. The other end of the wire is bent over at right angles as indicated at 27, to extend back against the other side face of the block 16, and thence outward at right angles, forming a projection 28 which is en gaged. by a hook 30 on the side of the block 16 to hold the wire in place. A shallow groove 33 across the end of the block 16 permits the sheet 19 to be kinked or creased around the wire 24, as shown in Fig. 3, and

affords additional clamping of such sheet.

Upon one end of the block 16 is secured a flat plate 40 which extends beyond the end prepared and a'sheet of paper or a card has been placed in position on the support 10.

as above described, the stamp is held in the hand and the flange 41. inserted in the groove 42 so as to properly register the stamp above the paper. The stamp is then brought downward, being moved about the engaging parts 41 and 42 as a hinge until thefadjacent part of its printing surface comes into contact with the surface 11, when it is rocked over its entire printing surface to bring all of such surface into contact with the paper and complete the impression, such rocking movement likewise releasing the plate 40 and permitting the stamp to be raised from the paper and the latter re moved. It will. be observed also that in such rocking movement of the stamp-and the raising of its end which has first come into contact with the paper, the latter is prevented from stickingio the sheet 19 and being raised with it by its confinement in the groove 13 in the guiding strip 12.

I claimjas my invention: 7

In a hand stamp, the combination with a stationary supporting member adapted to form a support for a sheet to beprinted upon and havin a guide for such sheet, of a movable mem er comprising a solid part having thereon an inking pad, a stencil sheet and means for securing such stencil sheet to such inking pad; and engaging parts on such stationary supporting member and such movable member, such engaging parts being, adapted to guide such movable member into contact with the sheet to be printed upon and to become disengaged in the further movement of such movable member; In witness whereof, I have hereunto subsc'ribed my name this 28th day of January,

ELIsHA N. FALES. 

